Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1949 — Page 10

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The World Is Watching Us

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country for leadership in the present world situation. “Europeans appreciate 1 much better than we the strength. 1 of nity. They know single nations cannot stand alone against a Napoleon, Hitler or Statin. SE 1 . Bit they also know from bitter geaEnce that the mere signing of treaties will not secure them against attack, Poland had mutual assistance pacts with Britain an and : France. But Pgland fell before the combined attack of (Germany and. Russia because Britain and France could not reach the field of action in time to save her. That lesson has not been forgotten. Our friends in Europe want iy from invasion. For that they must have arms—arms which we must help | supply if they are to have them. Arms are.essential to hold an invader in check until additional aid can come from ross . the sea. And Europeans know how long" it takes for that’ “from their ex in" two world wars. So they-want the |- arms now, to discourage’ a blitz attack which might knock them out ‘before our-troops could arrive.

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the opposite side of the Atlantic. cessful counterattack through Europe would be difficult, if not impossible. + We were able to turn the tide in‘the last war - forces could operate from bases in Britain. Our p blem would have been much simpler had we also had bases France, without having had to get them the hard way, by a costly, bloody invasion. = ‘a The best thing to be said for the arms-for-Europe proil gram is that it is insurance against war® It is a peace measure because the idea behind it is to ~ coltvince & would-bé aggressor that he cannot win. For this" strategy to succeed, prompt action on the arms bill is img + perative, ‘because the convincing must be done before relans ate strained beyond the point where reason can prevail. ‘The decisive vote by which the Atlantic Pact vas apnovia wis a half-way step in the right direction. But the ! ‘vote on the arms bill will be regarded by the rest of the world as the real test of our determination to keep. the | peace. American production tipped the scales against ag-~ gression in the last war. Now it must be enlisted to en--

force pence. Indiana Pidonwetnes :

MORE than 8000. Hoosiers have taken time off from their regular’ jobs and profession s for two weeks beginning today for aimy maneuvers with the ‘Indiana National | Guard's 38th infantry division at Camp Atterbury. ~~ Jtisnota vacation for these men. It means sacrifice. Se and work of the hardest kind in order that Indiana may crue pavide. .its-share.of. America's preparedness to insure pea

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The lesson learned from two world wars in a ‘generation | ~ is that | ir not-weskness.—is—the-most effective de— terrent to war. If America and her allies remain strong | _ during these crucial years of political conflict over the “world, the danger of any armed outbreak will be lessened.’ The Indiana National Guard's maneuvers is a reminder for all Hoosiers of the important part they must take in ‘the | State’s contributions to national strength and unity not only in military training but also in social and economic preparedness against loss of freedom.

Bearish Tale FP HE American grizsly bear (ursus houribilia) is known.

“to be ope.of the fiercest of our mative rugged indi- | vidualists, growing sometimes to a length of nine “feet, or approximately the same in height, standing up—with a weight up to 1000 pounds. Real bear, and a lot of bear. The grizzly (it didn't get that Latin name horribilis _ for nothing)’ is not easily made a pet of, It asks nothing from nobody and puts out the same. er That is why we were a little dismayed to read, that a eericomple. of panhandling grizzly bears had turned up-in Yel- | : owstone. National Park. A male and female, it seems, have been prowling one of the park roads putting the bee | - on passing tourists for handouts. Nbw that is an old cus- | tom among the brown beau (ursus arctus) and other lesser | species in Yellowstone, it ravely:-if ever has a grizzly | stooped-—or stood —arodnd out- there with an air of false humility, paw outstretched, hoping to make a touch. Park rangers promptly captured the two. panhandlers ‘and deported them in separate directions, for the protec- | tion. of tourists who mig ht get an arm gnawed off. That, of course, is a commendable step but probably a short. ’ ratge remedy. Maybe if people didn’ tagdo it, bears ‘wouldn't either stand around in these times, hat in hand, decking for Handouts. When people get bearish, hears are. eA to get pe ophieh;

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“The “Veepls “Decision THIS IS the tine of year when, you are likely tp see.a lot | of pictures in the paper ofj curvilinear young women” | being crowned quien of somethilg. or other-—frequently by | Vice President Barkley. Such an instance oceiirred Thursday at-Culpepper; Va. and the “Veep” told-a bi-centennial crowd that “some day” ‘while he was in the mood, he might crown a queen. of his 1 own “and keep her.” : That naturally was relat

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the Vice President explained it- all away ¢ by saying it was

his great regret, he said, he was going to have to suppres | his sense of humor. All we can say, it isn't the first time | a man has had to face such a grave decision — whether to | jy Eire 8 up his sense of or, ¢ or may single.

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“led wy the Soviet: Union, and without the un-

. ‘told the founders of the’

Some © one “has gone from your street’ today. RG T RE

“Yet he lived just a few doors from you,

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[* comforts.

just his “sense of humor” that prompted. the remark. To |

Chinese Reds Say Suton ~ Dye fo. Soviet Union Aid

- CANTON, Aug. 1—Chinese Communist prop- 1 aganda. is now giving. full credit to the Soviet Union for: Red successes in China. > The new refrain has something to recom: mend {t-~trith. It goes like this: After the defeat of Japan; the Soviet Union. and the Eastern European satellites pinned down the Unite: “and Britain. in Purope, while international communism went io town in Asia. Anti-=Communists have long. ame in pressing for a stronger stand - the Western democracies. But n

ently broadcast by the

THE promptness of France, Italy and Portugal in, ratify | ay. tn [Row China News | -ing the North Atlantic Puct after favorable action by | p : ~ the U. 8. Senate, shows the extent free nations look to this |

sociation at Pei identified as cha chairman: The New + As. saying: #5 : “The presént great victory of tne Chinese people's liberation army-is . . . inseparable from the sympathy and assistance. rendered by the broad 8 of the Soviet Union and other countriés. Because the Soviet Union, the East--ern Edropean néw democratic countries and the broad masses In Eunrope: pinned «own the main

forces of imperialism In the West, the Chinese «|

people were “able to wih victory. in the East “where the imperialist forces were weaker.” . And Chu Teh said: pot “It. is clear that the victory of the demipcratic swevolution of the Chinese _ separable from the friendly aid” of the Saviet t = Union. Without the Soviet Union, without ‘the victory of the anti-Fascist second world war

growth demperatic peace 1 Jee headed by the ony Union, during. the

past Tour years, the Chinese revolution wouldn't have won its present speedy and great Victory and the consolidation .of -vietory wouldn't be possible even when won." .

Similar Phrasing

* WITH remarkable similarity of sari the all China Writers and Artists Federation, one of many mushrooming organizations with which the Communists. are trying to clinch their victories, said: “If the British and American imperialist forces in the West had not been pinned down | by the. Soviet: Union and the European new democracies, defeat in the East for American imperialism and its running dog, the Chiang

Soviet Friendship Association

truction will be a powerful weapon in the hands the people in safeguarding the “fruits of the rev nary victory and in carrying out peaceful reconstruction.”

tasting Peace’ __THE declared purpose pose OF e association is to “introduce the experience of the Soviet Union > the national reconstruction, and and technology, and to strengthen ship of the two countries in the st lasting peace.” In Communist propaganda you can read “Communist world revolution” for such’phrases as “lasting peace.” Chou En-ldl, who once impressed Gen, George C. Marshall with his sincerity by crying peal tears—when Gen. Marshall was in China . ‘trying for a Kuomintang-Communist coalition ‘new association that the Chinese-Soviet treaty (under which Russia } gained predominant position in Manchuria) was “wholly in accord with the Fevorationary interest of the Chinese people.” Chou anticipated no friendly Telations™ with non-Communist countries. He said the Chinese people “must be prepared for a blockade of eight to 10 years }

THE SHOW MUST GO ON

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FEY “This world is & restless, i “Phis is a tact we ll must face - Well, now, you must. rush, you can't be fate— “The show they say, today, is great. ’ 4 " Yes, someone is missing from your street, L If you never met him, now, you'll never mes}, The street will never khow him more Today he was carried from his door. Yes, it is true—the show must go on-- 2 Though from among us, someone has gone. :

You found no time for-a word or two, You never "found time while he was here - To stop with a friendly word of cheer. } The world of today says, “On with the: show” Down that same path we all will go. . : —M. ARY R. Ww HITE, 854 N, Sherman Dr.

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WORLD ECONOMY |

WASHINGTON," Aug: 1-— Understanding of Britains economic may have been terribly muddled up’ by much gobbledy-gook. ‘When financial experts get to “spouting about trade balances;: sterling convertibility, drawing right, devaliation of currency and bilateral vs. “multilateral trade agreements, they are talkAng way over the heads of most ‘of the ‘ taxpaying customers, .. These problems are of course very real. The fact that U. 8. Treasury Secretary John Snyder has gone to Europe to look into them, the fact that his British counterpart, Sir Stafford Cripps, is coming to the United States in September to talk about them some more, attest to the seriThere would be much less confusion if their public statements were not in such stratospheric language; out ail of the statistics and trying to is situation to its simplest possible terms, the Br Rian crisis may be described as nothing more than a. job of selling.’

Salesman's Language

THE United States is 4 nation where everything is‘ sold by super-salesmep-—{rori razor. _blades, brushes and vacuum cleapers io automobiles, insurance, skyscrapers and Brook=lyn bridge. So anything expressed in alesman's language ought to" be understandablg-in . this country. > Over the long haul, "the only. solution to the British problem is that the British inust expand the United Bet and Canada dollar zr Ti 1s ThE area wat __the British have to. buy many of the things that they need most—principally wheat, meat, fats - and oils apd other foodstuffs, - Up to three months ago; the.British seemed to be doing all right at this business. Marshall Plan aid, American scarcities and - American high prices were contributing factors. When American prices began to decline and sales began to Tall off the British were in a bad way. In this situation the British government was

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. By Peter Edson

Sales Job Seen as British Need

~ Kai-shek reactionary clique, wouldn't have been |

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. forced to do what many American business

“firms were forced to do. They cut back on the amount of supplies they bought, even though they needed them. They are going to have to

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live on a lower standard-—-less American tobaces, for instancé-—until they can earn some dollars _to buy what they want.

ately

- The problem which the British now face is fo provide some kihd. of incentive for British manufacturers to get out and sell more of their

eh pire areas where the pound sterling is the basic ¢urrency. In this area the British salesmen have ™ - a protected--market that amounts to a virtual monopoly. In this area they don’t have to buck American competition and American prices.

‘Sales Can Be Increased

IT IS now claimed that the volume of U. 8, imports from Britain can easily be stepped up without doing any harm to American industry. British sales in the United States last year— about $286,000,000—were only about one-tenth of one per cent of the U. 8. gross national © product. . ~~ The Marshall Plan has sometimes been se verely criticized on the grounds that all it was

—dustry-which-would be competitive to American manufacturers and would take jobs away from American working’ ¥nen. But British sales to the United States in many fields need not be at al competitive. American wage rates are now at such levels

that the manufacturer of handicrafts in this |

country has practically ceased. There is a mar‘ket for these things in the United States—for- . fine textiles, laces, high grade chinaware and cutlery, But it will take considerable initiative an the part of the British to.meet the demands of the American market.

Refused. to. Change.

THE story is told of one SSE BAS Arm that-for= years had made bonehandled cutlery its top .stvie line, Before the war it sold good quantities in America. Some of the retail outlets after the war advised the manufacturer that the demand now was for silver-handled cutlery. The manufacturer refused to change from the traditional patterns. So he lost the business. That kind of stubborn resistance to modern: sales methods doesn't help the British position a bit. The other side of this argument is that une less U. 8. imports of British and European

products are stepped up, the American taxpayer .

Ab wine fon

who are indifferent to the fate of families in. the slums (though usually greatly interested in slum property: values): That public housing “does not clear the.slums, and thit slums are’ created by the deliberate actions of the slum dwellers. Let me state in reply that the Past 100 years —have seen a “constant increase in sium “which blight our cities. This tendency was arrested only after the first U. 8. Housing Act was passed. More unsafe and insanitary dwell. ings were eliminated In the four years between 1937 and 1941 than had been eliminated in the ‘ previous 40 years. Under the operation of this law, slums were cleared. away exactly in the same proportion as new housing was provided. Under the present law, we will see the same results, ; Mr. Schneider asderts that slum-.dwellers do not get to live in the new housing. The doe- ~ umented facts are that until 1941, public housing accepted .as tenants only families from substandard housing. It was only through pressure: of defense officials during the war: emergency that some local housing authorities were —Authorized to aotept-war industry workers with out régard to the level of income. Under the provisions of the new jaw Arst Sout primey con-" . «pues. to be. given 10. slum wellers. : ep hi oth eat “slum create the slums, it is a kind of a below the

‘who frequently have neither the economie means’ nor the social background to’ rise to their own defense. and sand up for or The only crime of thege people is that they are forced to live in inadequate housing because their society has not been able or seen fit to provide them with decent homes at prices they | can afford to pay. Experience in public housing.. projects throughout the eo clusively that the vast ma, | Immediately adjust ‘themselves \to their new, happier environment; in fact, are distinguished by the excellent care they give their homes, These are the facts which are open to al who are willing to face the problem without bias. A former commissioner of the U, 8. Housing Authority once sald that 90 per cent of the criticism of public housing was based on ignorance of facts or willful misrepresentation. Let us not be misled. Let us rather approach the problem in a co-operative spirit, aware.of eur resfionsibilitiex, and ready to do our duty by ° our fellow men.

What Others Say

OUR belief is that a social democratic Ll make a ey “contribation Eo

=r competitive sah can aris Deputy . Prime Minister Herbert Morrison.

a 4 @ I HOPE the day will come soon when all the world will learn the secret America discovered and practiced to their advantage: "It is more blessed to give than to receive. ft dont Syngman § Rhee of Korea. ~ Spi tet

THAT the Soviet Union® makes frightful

faces” the prospect of having to keep on fi- .

pancing toreign wid tyes

Marshall Plan or its successor. The way to get |

Europe off the American heck nd to help Jnake 4k Ael-aUPPOrting, ‘

| RUSSIA ... By Jim G. Lucas

LW ASHINGTON, Aug. 1 steel,

rr When-dast- Yor sign new ones,

“Volume Dropped

. MANGANESE shipments continued while th “drained during January; dropped sharply

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trickle during Juné.

The Russian afeuver badly frightened stee - | tional defense Ipkders six ‘months go. Even now, the situatiog |

is described ax “tight.”

But th covered oo ment miner al mer say it will be tough sledding it gap ‘be done, The dec isi has beeh made,

move has been a blessing in disguise,

déparimental committee wet up by sources board

Moscow ‘wanted.

Sign of Weakness a = ANOTHER. group. opposed ONGEASIONS.

without: Russian manganese, even if it meant It held out for developing new sources. ““ Sty months ago. we did hot have enough for

tion.

“We expect to have: enough for current output plus

able to get atl Wwe need from sources outside Russia. t Russia Swill “be " It may be, they

When that happens; honrd sources anxious to sell manganese to us~-on our terms. say, ‘that“Russia already fears that a political cost her a dollar market.

Africa and Brazil India:

The situation in ‘Has extensive mangane:

‘Reds Failing Ragin

~Russia’s attempt to cripple the’ American steel industry by withholding manganese is. failing. Twelve pourids 6f manganese. is needed to make a ton of | Heretofore, Russia has furnished 35 per Oo of the 1.5 million tons consumed here each year.

A-CORLEACLS. expired... Negotiations “for ‘1948 ‘were almost completed when the Soviet: representatives walked out on orders from the | Kremlin. There was little'doubt here that the move was intended to force relaxation or akandonment.of an American embargo off machine «tools and industrial equipment for Russia.

February and March. However, volume There were no deliveries in April and May. in understood {tig Commerce Department figurds willishow a.

an get along: without Russian manganese. - Govern-

It was made during mohths of anxious discussion in an interthe national security At the start, ong group wanted a “realistic” ap|_proach, to recognize frankly that we could not get along. with--1 out Russian manganesf #nd make the best possible “deal” "would have meant relaxation of the mbar which- is’ just what

at ‘argued that any. sign of weakness would increase our difficulties. and mean more power plays all down the line, It insisted we had to get along

oday, we have enough for the domestic economy but little for stockpiting., By tha end of the year, the resources “modest”

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have been mined. However, rail transportation-ig a bottlencck. Political - unrest, . -particulagie. Communist agitation, - 1s ~another y 2

South Atvica: Also y haa Jage manganee depoyits.

Again, transportationsis the bottlene K bids” trucking, and Fo “movement by Tail,

| “Brazil: Manganese ranks next to iron in AmpREtaNGS, | i \ The United States in’ ‘looking to th ree coyntries-Lindin South | Western Matto. hoi the A ar Joealed Se uma hn ach is roughly th ‘pal production ‘area (s central Minas Gerais, A United. Sates.

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HIGHWAYS ee By Bruce Biossat

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‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—Anyone who has ventured far on the nation's highways in recent years has seen how frequently inadequate they are for the needs of today’s torrent of traffic. The country’s. roads took arn iinmerciful pounding during. World War II from the transport of oy and materials. - little has been done since prewar days fo

| trucks and buses are in use than ever before, are bigger, too, The Publlic Roads Administration now hag a new “plan to

$11,266.000.000-- fo febuild and extend U. Sprang interstate Sekwor. | Danger Points

NO pecoabt- RATS web of high- speed ———— { ways is contemplated. What is proposed instefkdie a painstaking |“ item-by-itém improvement of ‘the thousands of Weal.spots and

8 ruct on. 0 Lb TO d. eXpressways

blunders and aggressions and cdmmits ‘stupidis ties = IROPe- -the— niman-inteliigones can bear, should not excuse the stupidities we make ourselves, colonn ‘Gunther, in “Behind ne

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And repair: or modernize -

in history.” More passenger vehicles and more

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“about it. . Over a 20-year span it wouid--spend

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in the road system.’

Some of the flaws the federal agency wants. to eliminate: The bad curves which it says occur about once in every two miles

‘Ald interstate system,

7 unsafe bridges and 8185 spans that are too narrow, The 21 dangerous tunnels, including six- that engineers think’ | should. be by-passed by new main routes. Some 17,000 miles of rural roads in the interstate system

than the proper minimum width of 22

The_21,000 potential death traps where highway isibiity is iso limited that peril attends any but the most cautious driving

Steady but relentless attack on all these Weaknesses would ~ | not :medn, however, that no attention woftid be given to whally new roads or even to some superhighways:

| Divided Highways.

THE PRA's plans call for construction of- four-lane, divided’ highways mainly in-ecity and suburban areas where the crush" | of traffic is heaviest. -| “be advocated ohly where there is special need, such as at ‘bridge | approaches or the tops of high hills,

Big expressways in the open country would

The agency says planners believe smiall towns should be by passed whenever possible, but think motorists generally: want 16 go throng Haines than around the larger cities, - -

jinistration’s views have not Ke Pennsylvania Turns now being ‘extended to reach from Philadelphia to.

[Congress must act on the PRA’s program und if ought - | command the lawmakers’ ‘respectful attention, } expansive planning in Washington, it would have been easy for

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belt, an attack on millions of American families

slum-dwellers or

1 1 fon complied to reply to Mr, Schneider's, pg recent attack upon’the stand my organization Nha “as taken on the’ Busing DOI oimuly passed ; NRE by Soffa oo Game | po steer. 1... Wma 1 ; a 3" 54 "housing. Mr. ‘Schneider’s co ig. with the the Victory J middle income 1 fly admit that , ‘Cream City their housing. p roblem is- serious, too, and de- regular . mands ° grow Bois ‘The solution - proposed by a AT peas Mr, Schneider-is a possible Sutdtiud 2 a It is belie this middle-income group. As § ve : Leg some merit. Another way of attacking the - : Yas Studener housing problem of this group le that proposed . , oppose the Re by AVC's Hational housing in the series f “man Roosevelt; who has a fa iudies providing. for government loans coir a BH SOLO £8 for co-operative housing projects, : “at 845, At any rate, we feel that any attempt to to . By splitting - “improve the housing situation must begin where Brewers yester the worst housing exists; namely, with-the low. fans, the India income groups who are forced to live in slums, three and a h To Tg iu the problem any other way would firit place as be in the words of an observer, “like curing . : Paul Saints al cold but ignoring a cancer. ” header in Loui: As T see it, Mr. Schrielder has fallen for two two i Attendan aspects of propaganda disseminated by those The , Indians drew two 11.00

week-«end. and turnstile count 800,000 mark. (paid) today. * The Sunday of interesting « fact the Brews ataris; 4 to 1h Redskins boun: snatched the. se ~Les- Fleming customers - to drives, one in t er and two in Lakeman belte for Milwaukee . Roy B: The “Indians great pitching the opener an three hits- ov: route) Only : righthander in nings and the to get a hit ur _Ted

P - three twin kill In the eight!

homered, Dal and Jerry Scal as though Roy ek but he pu when his infi with its third « - Busy Arour Roy Hartsfi and Johnny Li cepted 20 chai

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‘On top “of this; our “battered highways are carrying their -

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